Coleman Barks Quotes
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
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Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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Experts are able to identify patterns related to a specific problem relevant to their area of knowledge. But because nonexperts lack that base of knowledge, they are forced to rely more on their brain's ability for abstraction rather than specificity.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
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I'm always challenged by someone.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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Take disturbance as an awakening sign that you misunderstand something you assumed you understood.
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A Moment's Halt - a momentary taste Of Being from the Well amid the Waste - And Lo! - the phantom Caravan has reach'd The Nothing it set out from - Oh, make haste!
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Without evidence, anything goes. Think about it. Common sense says the sun goes round the Earth. Who agrees with me?
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I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.
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Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.
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The student ends up lusting after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.
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They're turnin' kids into slaves just to make cheaper sneakers But what's the real cost 'cause the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper Why are we still payin' so much for sneakers when you got them made by little slave kids? What are your overheads?!
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Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture.
